Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv prt] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | British flags upside down at royal show |
| 2 | Following the bomb drop , the Lincolns would wheel in at low level allowing the air gunners to heavily strafe the target area . |
| 3 | ‘ Besotted by that silly queer over at Imperial . ’ |
| 4 | But for newcomers it is daunting to stand on the brink of Genghis Khan — one of the runs in China Bowl — and gaze down at unending acres of snow . |
| 5 | If you are going up to senior positions movement is essential ; even people who may plateau out at middle management will have done a lot of different jobs for three , four , five years . |
| 6 | This makes contact with the batch of rods , then draws the cooling product along at predetermined speed for about 5m(16ft) before–relaxing the pressure , lifting off , and allowing the machine operator to cut the batch free . |
| 7 | When approached by Central news Mrs Gee drove off at high speed . |
| 8 | She sucked her teeth , took another ticket down at random , glanced at it , crumpled it and tossed it into the disposal by her left knee . |
| 9 | So tha that is , mam picks phone up at other end . |
| 10 | Now , hitting upon the lucky number that opens the bank 's safe is the equivalent , in our analogy , of hurling scrap metal around at random and happening to assemble a Boeing 747 . |
| 11 | Starting with a look back at early aircraft carrier landings , with a fair amount of aircraft coming to grief , the film includes interviews with the likes of Boone Guyton , Corsair test pilot and Don Jordan , Pratt & Whitney engineer . |
| 12 | ‘ Because the three men that I 've got in the morgue back at New Scotland Yard are Peter Lawton , Mathew Bryce and Trevor Magee . ’ |
| 13 | Ex-Sun Microsystems Inc executive Bill Keating who traipsed off about 18 months ago to become vice president and general manager over at Rational Inc ( UX No 349 ) is now winding down out of that job and consulting with the new Lachman Technology Inc , helping to get that start-up going ( UX No 418 ) . |
| 14 | The letters , postcards , the silver tray in the shape of the island Eva sent to her personal secretary back at social services in London . |
| 15 | He pulled a book down at random , then another and another . |
| 16 | When he played the film back at normal speed , which then makes the birds appear in slow motion , he could see what the birds were actually doing . |
| 17 | ‘ You two caused quite a stir back at High Command , ’ she said as she joined us . |
| 18 | Clever parents are , naturally , going to give their children a more encouraging educational environment : to take a single example , they are not going to have the television set on at full volume while the unfortunate kids are attempting to do their school homework . |
| 19 | The type of off-farm work occasionally dictated the enterprises that the farm could have as time off at critical periods could clash with the off-farm employment . |